While reports of slow sales and unharvested grapes have worried winemakers in recent months, Lodi Grape Festival manager Mark Armstrong said the venue's first major event of the year is sure to help ...

David Gleave MW is a global citizen. He has the stateless accent and roving mind that gives it away. Canadian by birth and a ...

Sadly, it’s often a symptom of a kind of snobbery: “I’m writing my column this week about obscure, skin-contacted, ‘amber’ wine fermented in an earthenware vessel buried in the ground in ...

“As a producer, it’s hard. We don’t want to see our wine come off the shelf,” said Joan Kautz of Ironstone Vineyards, which operates in Lodi and Calaveras County. About 10% of Ironstone ...